Let the Mother Bird Go…’ Preservation Motif in Pentateuch

Let the Mother Bird Go…demonstrates the Author’s scholarly abilities, creative insights and pastoral experience. He uses Hebrew, Greek and Syriac well in the interpretation of the texts. Chapters one, two and three have excellent exegetical work on selected passages -Deuteronomy 20:19-20; 22:6-7 and Genesis 1: 26-28 respectively. He surveys a century or more critical scholarship in the study of Scriptures, with special reference to these texts. While scholars down the centuries have looked at these passages from humanitarian, utilitarian, vandalistic and ethical points of view, this book looks at them from ecological and theological perspective and brings out the biblical emphasis on preservation of life sources and the different species in the world created by God. It is a timely book which draws the attention of churches and people of all faiths to this important issues and inspires positive action.